Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Loss or lack of stability or equilibrium.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An imperfect equilibrium, as of intellectual and moral faculties.
Wiktionary
- n. the loss of equilibrium or stability, especially due to an imbalance of forces
WordNet 3.0
- n. loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others
Etymologies
- dis- + equilibrium (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Classically trained professionals and laypeople alike offered similar explanations for why people fell sick: the body's four humors had been thrown out of balance, causing one or more of these fluids to be in disequilibrium with the others.”
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
“The difficulty is, of course, as we have seen in the German case, to reach agreement in a given moment on whether a fundamental disequilibrium is prevalent.”
“The new editor of the AER is Robert Clower, a UCLA professor who is widely known as a disequilibrium theorist and interpreter or reinterpreter of Keynes.”
“Now, once you get all those factors, which are long-running historical forces, and you put them all together, you get a very disjointed, dis - -- a region in disequilibrium, which is what the Middle East is now.”
Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience
“Webster calls disequilibrium “a state of emotional or intellectual imbalance.””
“On Wednesday, he accused prosecutors of creating "disequilibrium" in the justice system by making "political use" of the courts.”
“You would expect a few embarrassing simplifications, but there are none--the argument is airtight, and Médaille leaves almost nothing out I wish he had addressed the mid-twentieth century economist Joseph Schumpeter, who coined the phrase "creative destruction," and reworkd classical economics to account for "disequilibrium" and the dominance of large firms.”
“Such an excess, either way, may be regarded as a sign of disequilibrium - a disequilibrium which is perfectly possible, even in a barter economy. 11”
“This means we are in a permanent state of monetary disequilibrium which is reflected in unstable exchange rates.”
“It is rumoured that Ronaldo is so good at diving because he was born with disequilibrium which is a type of disease which makes people fall frequently.”
Lists
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Lifehacking
Start with the effect, the what; signal-patch known-belief spirit. "Write my program, routine me." New cue vs brand loyalty. Ritual Ceremony Design Technologies, Inc.
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Macbeth
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circumscribe
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simple & useful13
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strev's list
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strev I'll drink to that. Apr 17, 2009